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Hi-tech entrepreneur Michael Kuperman discovers the illegitimate sale of chemical weapons abroad by a powerful American corporation. Exactly what does he do with this knowledge? Ultimately, the Kuperman family must flee Boston and hide their identity. Dealing with danger changes their life as a family. That is a novel about family. The countless ways of being Jews in modern-day American society play themselves out in the tensions within Michael s family, a family at the edge of divorce. Kuperman struggles along with his complex heritage as a Jew. He'd prefer to hide in a sentimental version of his heritage, but becomes alert to its many real strands, including a passion for justice as well as religious faith. Most of us are here by a miracle . . . 100 years ago someone hid or someone fled . . . and his unborn children s children weren t buried in a killing pit, weren t forced into a shower of Zyklon B. Each of us is a important distillate. Into present time, the storyplot folds moments from days gone by that contain made survival possible Michael Kuperman's ancestors fleeing the Rhine valley eastward into Poland in the fourteenth century; fleeing Poland into Bessarabia in the seventeenth century. And in a primary, literal way the legacy of his grandfather protects him and his family in his immediate danger. Kuperman's Fire explores evil not only monstrous narcissism, indifferent alive but also take pleasure in destruction, a delight that can t be rationally explained. How are we to hold such evil in our minds? How can we handle it emotionally, spiritually? While Kuperman s Fire celebrates the miracle of our own survival, it insists on our responsi??bility to face evil and continue the miracle.
